What goes wrong with temp tracks ('temp love'), what mitigations do editors and composers describe, and where do sources disagree?

Practitioner sources agree temp music shapes the final score: Carlson hears 'the DNA of the temp' in many scores, and Harrison says composers end up with a 'sideways version'. They differ on remedy and value: Harrison treats temp love as a curse or a help (non-musical filmmakers can say what they love in the temp), while the Pluribus editors (Art of the Cut) avoid temp except for montages and one temp-scored first episode shown to the studio. A blog post under Randy Thom's name overstates the editors' own words ('the entire series without any temporary score'): the interview says exceptions existed, so the blog is a lead, not evidence of the claim. Curator qualifications: Art of the Cut: 'McCaleb: We don't temp at all. It's one of the great gifts of working with Vince ... With the exception of montages - where we'll usually either have a piece of music that somebody has in mind ...'. Thom blog: 'Most editing rooms succumb to "temp love"'; 'The editor of Pluribus, Skip Macdonald, and his colleagues chose to work dry… no temp score, no placeholder swells'. Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary. Limitations: [rights_conflict_record] eligible_conflict_preserved Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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